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- a In a letter to the Director, dated 3/27/59, Mr. Murray M. Grier, Post Office Bor 1235, Gastonia, North Carolina, advised that he We wae a member of the first FBI training course given during World War i Two at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgta. Mr. Grier highly pratsed the courtesies @Ztended to him on 7/29/42 by Captain Melutn Purvis in connection with the serious tliness and death of vr. Grier's father. Mr. Grier asked for Purvis' address, title and birth date, and after * pratsing articles written ty the Director asked to be placed on the ie: Bureau natl ing list. . * Ring 7 ate .. . ' me, . ce ae ye. On 4/2/59, ‘the Bureau ‘acknowledged the. above correspondence, a Placing Mr. Grier on the mailing list, and also advising him that the Bureau did not maintain current addresses of former employees. 3-1~+35-574 A Bureau memorandum dated 11/20/42 regarding the Counter intelligence Corps, War Department. discussed an article which appeared tn the Auguat 1942 issue of the Amertcan Legton magazine which belittied the Bureau and definitely indicated that the CIC was the real tnvestt- gative agency in the country. Mr. James 0'Netl, Chairman of the Amertcaniam Commission, American Legion and Chief of Police, Manchester, N.H. advised that whtle he could not prove it, he was very much of the opinion that Melvin Purvis was behind Thomas MM. Johnson in writing the article. He atated that the Provost Marshal's Office was constantly trying to take over the work which was properly the Bureau's and cooperating police agencies. SMR onan se ch 62-70609-3 (U7)e On 10/20/42, the SAC at the Knorville Office declined an tnuttattion ertended by Major Melvin Purvts to speak at the graduation erercises of the Prevost Marshal Training Center, Fort Oglethorpe; Georgia on 10/23/42. bt 3 ty 94-1-30651-1 % (22) 7 a A Bureau memorandum d pb sini urn i had furnt nformatton in answer to the Bureau inguiry comeerning the purpose of the school, atudents and instructors 7 at the school. There was no indicatton that Melvin Purvis had been at : the school.